5 Annual Review Lessons Learned: Growing a Business 5x

Business Growth and Personal Rituals

• 🗓️ The host, Cara Loenthile, shares her annual review lessons learned, timed with her business anniversary in May, reflecting her May-to-May business cycle.
• 🧠 She emphasizes the importance of creating rituals for reflection to gain perspective, even outside of formal introspection.
• 🚀 The past year saw insane growth personally and in her business, with two-thirds of the growth occurring in the last six months.

Lesson 1: Stop Thinking Small

• 💡 Playing small is relative; even starting with a premium price for coaching lawyers, the host realized she was limiting herself by not pursuing her broader mission.
• 🎯 A conversation with another coach prompted her to skip the planned two years of limited practice and branch out immediately, tripling her business in six months.
• ✨ Aligning her business with her calling to teach feminist women tools for liberation, though more complex, led to greater joy and transformation.

Lesson 2: Massive Action is Key

• ⚡ Implementing a bigger vision requires massive action, not just intention or manifestation.
• 💥 Despite a marketing plan flop, the host achieved a six-figure launch through persistent, iterative action and self-coaching through doubt.
• 🚀 The key is to keep trying things and not let failures or setbacks halt progress.

Lesson 3: Self-Doubt Means Nothing

• 🧠 Self-doubt is persistent and will likely always be present, even with success.
• 🚫 The crucial realization is that self-doubt doesn't need to be taken seriously and is not a reliable indicator of true problems.
• 🚶‍♀️ Instead of resisting doubt, acknowledge it, nod to the